Handel in high heels ; CLASSICAL ++ Agrippina The Coliseum LONDON ++ Halle Orchestra / Mark Elder Symphony Hall MANCHESTER

The Independent on Sunday | February 11, 2007| | Copyright

David McVicar's production of Agrippina, first seen at La Monnaie in Brussels in 2000 and now recreated for English National Opera by McVicar and his associate director, Lee Blakeley, owes much to the glory days of Sex and The City, before the four central characters were disarmed by cancer, childbirth, and true love. Though the programme is heavy with head-shots of Hillary Clinton, Margaret Thatcher, Benazir Bhutto, Madam Mao, Cherie Blair, and Indira Ghandhi, only one of its monstrous regiment of political pin-ups is key to the production: Imelda Marcos, Queen of Shoes.

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